It's what's known as dithering,Susan. I firmly believe that Jeremy was looking for advice and reassurance not obviously having been faced with such a decision as this,or any decision really as I would have said that his father dished out all the advice about everything and his father was well and truly tied up this time. No decision-maker to hand and nobody else to turn to really. It was done in all innocence,as it must have come as a shock and Jeremy having had a pretty sheltered past was by no means prepared for a gun-toting sister.